bird flu strains three mutations away from pandemic

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bird flu strains three mutations away from pandemic

Postby FlashDaddy » Thu Jun 21, 2012 6:36 pm

Some bird flu strains only three mutations away from a pandemic, researchers find

A new study raises concerns that it may be possible for airborne transmissible, human-to-human avian H5N1 flu viruses to evolve in nature.

The study looked at five mutations identified previously in the controversial bird flu studies published in the journals Nature and Science—led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin and Ron Fouchier of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, respectively—which would make it possible for bird flu to spread from human to human.


Read more at linky:http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/06/21/how-likely-is-human-bird-flu-pandemic/?test=latestnews#ixzz1yTQK9Jgb

So how likely is that to happen? The article quotes a researcher “ But nature has already told us this is very unlikely—not impossible, but unlikely.”
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Re: bird flu strains three mutations away from pandemic

Postby BullOnParade » Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:59 pm

Well, we all saw how bad the world failed with H1N1, and that was a minor scuffle with the devils ... and the state of the world economy (markets everywhere crashed today), there's no chance another pandemic would go well (I know it doesn't ever really go well, but you know what I mean).
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